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Non-conventional Plant Fibres

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There are many non-conventional fibre-yielding plants with the potential for use for different applications. Some of them are presented in the chapter.

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Sfiligoj Smole, M., Hribernik, S., Kurečič, M., Urbanek Krajnc, A., Kreže, T., Stana Kleinschek, K. (2019). Non-conventional Plant Fibres. In: Surface Properties of Non-conventional Cellulose Fibres. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10407-8_3

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